Daniel Hiester

Daniel Hiester (25 June 1747-7 March 1804) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-PA) from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1795, from PA-5 from 4 March 1795 to 1 July 1796 (preceding George Ege), and from MD-4 from 4 March 1801 to 7 March 1804 (succeeding George Baer, Jr. and preceding Roger Nelson.

Biography
Daniel Hiester was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1747 to a Silesian German immigrant father, and he engaged in the mercantile business in Montgomery County before serving as a colonel and Brigadier-General of the state militia during the American Revolutionary War. Hiester went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1796 and from 1801 to 1804, representing Maryland from 1801 after moving to Hagerstown. He died in 1804.